Amazon AWS, Google App Engine, Microsoft Azure, and More – Part 1: Can We Secure The Cloud?

Cloud computing, or as I like to call it the return of the mainframe and thin-client computing architecture – only cloudier, has been creating a lot of interesting discussion throughout IT recently.
Cloud computing, which we will define as any service or set of services delivered through the Internet (Cloud) without requiring additional infrastructure on the [...]

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Cloud Computing – The Good, The Bad, and the Cloudy

And on the second day God said “let there be computing – in the cloud” and he gave unto man cloud computing…on the seventh day man said “hey, uhmm, dude where’s my data?”
There has been much talk lately about the “Cloud“. The promise of information stored in massive virtual data centers that exist in the [...]

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Myths, Misconceptions, Half-Truths and Lies about Virtualization

Thanks to VMware you can barely turn around today without someone using the V-word and with every aspect of the English language, and some from ancient Sumeria, now beginning with V it will only get worse. There is no question that virtualization holds a lot of promise for the enterprise, from decreased cost to increased [...]

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